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Post by toni on Jul 24, 2015 11:16:00 GMT -5
I also believe the more we understand (which we do better now than *then*)...that in doing so, we can help ourselves manage everything a lot better. Watch the following pics, and then this "wood-looking-piece" of what LOOKS-LIKE nothing'ness........... (actually is something we need to fix) and can.
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Post by toni on Jul 24, 2015 11:23:37 GMT -5
Now here's a closer look at this "wood looking specimen" that me and many have seen. I sure hate seeing these suckers again.
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Post by toni on Jul 24, 2015 11:36:34 GMT -5
This does look familiar of fungal Sclerotia I've seen on the internet, but, I don't know of what species. Anyone?
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Post by toni on Jul 24, 2015 11:56:02 GMT -5
Sclerotium from Wiki
A sclerotium (plural sclerotia, from Greek skleros - hard) is a compact mass of hardened fungal mycelium containing food reserves. One role of sclerotia is to survive environmental extremes. In some higher fungi such as ergot, sclerotia become detached and remain dormant until favorable growth conditions return.
*I see I was calling the specimen (which is one specimen pictured) by it's plural name - sclerotia. So it's actually a "sclerotium", since it's ONE specimen/food source - for hyphae of "who knows what species" for fungus to grow".
And of course, (as of this minute, I don't even know *positively* if that is Sclerotium, but....anyone have a better thought?
I say that woody looking specimen looks like Sclerotium because "the new hyphae is, or appears surely in that photo to be of "new growth of mycelium or hyphae". So, personally, I'd bet on it.
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Post by itchin4answers on Jul 25, 2015 2:56:54 GMT -5
This does look familiar of fungal Sclerotia I've seen on the internet, but, I don't know of what species. Anyone? Hi toni, the picture looks familiar to what has come out of my skin, and my picture under the scope looked like yours with the fiber growth. A small piece of wood is a perfect description. A pimple or lump can form and later you can see dark under the skin, then the wood bit pops out.
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Post by toni on Jul 25, 2015 9:09:09 GMT -5
Hi Itchin,
Geeze, I just clicked the wrong thing, and lost my initial post to you.
Yes, I'm glad to know that you've seen them too, but sorry that you have.
This particular specimen I felt a slight tickling between my brows and I carefully looked into my 10X magnifying mirror and was able to catch it on the tip of my "wet needle".
And until I put a drop of water on it while it was on the slide, did I see the hyphae or mycelium growing out of it.
I find that the specimens "unfold" best in a drop of water, because had it just been "a dry specimen" the hyphae would never have shown, as it would have been all stuck to iself.
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Post by Baraka Obam on Jul 25, 2015 14:20:47 GMT -5
Today I found one of those little tough blobs on my skin, it was bigger than normal so I thought it could not be morg material,
I got out the trusty microscope and put the blob up for inspection,
The thing was quite free of growth but under the heat of the lamp produced a filament I have seen before, now because it was on the outside of the skin I have to imagine it was not a sterile find.
MEANING ANYTHING COULD HAVE GOTTEN STUCK TO IT, AND MAYBE JUST MAYBE IT DID NOT EVEN COME OUT OF ME, THEN TO THE POSITIVE SIDE, I HAVE SEEN THIS GROWTH BEFORE
The vine has evenly spaced butterfly shapes pointing towards the end, I would say its genus could be easily identified by this trait.
I would like to post it but am so tired of dismissal of the product I show in details beyond question of their importance.
Its not even clear if it is important, who knows, what was once the answer to identifying, finding the traits of this disease, is now, more than likely, considered NORMAL debris .
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